This and That

When I came home from work Friday night, I found a surprise in my living room. My parents recently bought a new sofa that has two reclining seats on each end. Mom said that she has been using one of the sofa recliners and Dad has switched from his Lazy Boy rocker-recliner to sitting in Mom's which was identical to his. She said that now that they have the sofa recliners they don't need two other recliner-rockers so they gave me Dad's. It looks a lot like this picture except it looks a bit more overstuffed and it is a dark steel blue color. It is in perfect shape and is very comfy. I am thrilled to have it!

I used to have a Lazy Boy rocker recliner but it wasn't as comfy and had wooden armrests. Eventually after many years something broke and I could not get the footrest to fold back in so I threw it out. I have a large overstuffed sofa and matching chair in the living room but I have really been missing having a recliner. My sofa and chair has a pattern with shades of steel blue, cream, brown and a peachy brown so the "new" recliner looks good with it. I told Mom today that I ended up not even falling asleep in my bed. I fell asleep in the recliner! She said that is very easy to do with that chair.

We got some snow last night. I didn't want to have to get out in the cold today but this morning I had to drive to the hospital to go to the pharmacy to pick up my prescription refills. I stopped at the gas station to get some gas. I tried three times to use my debit card in the gas pump and three times I got a message saying I needed to see the attendant. I didn't want to have to walk across the slushy and icy parking lot to find out what the problem was. I went in and the cashier didn't know why it would not work. I was trying to use my "pump perks" card from the grocery store to get some money off my gas purchase and then use my debit card to pay. I have done it many times with no problem. She asked me what exactly I did and when I told her the order of what I did, she interrupted me and asked me if I swiped my perks card. It is hard to explain here but she was not really listening to what I had just said. She was hearing me but not listening. She turned to a co-worker who was talking on the phone and told her "you need to go outside and help her". The co-worker swatted her hand in the air and had an expression on her face like "okay okay but I am on the phone here!" I told the cashier it was okay, I'll just go to another gas station. I didn't say it it rudely but I just was not in the mood to wait and I could tell it might take a while. The cashier told me, "no no wait...she'll go out and help you". Customers were lining up behind me. I work with the public so I know she was getting nervous.

I went on outside and in the time it took me to slowly weeble-wobble out to the car, screw the gas cap back in, shut the gas door and get in the car and sit for a few moments talking to Dexter who went along for the ride...I could see that nobody would probably be coming out anyway. So off I drove to another gas station. My grocery "pump perks" card isn't accepted there so I was going to just use my debit card. Well this time I got a message saying it could not connect. Grrr. I was beginning to wonder if it was a problem with my debit card or maybe the computer banking system was down.

After I picked up my medicine, I drove to McDonald's and ordered a fish sandwich and a plain cheeseburger to give Dexter a treat (I know I am a bad doggy mama for giving him human food) and my debit card worked fine there. So I went to a different gas station on the way back home and thank goodness my debit card worked at that pump. I was going to have to write a check if it didn't work. I only had a few dollars in cash on me.

On the way back home I was behind a truck at a stop light. I saw the oddest decal on this truck's back window. Well, I thought it was odd. It said "Christian Coonhunter". I guess I just wondered what is the purpose to announce to the world that you are a Christian coonhunter. It just struck me as funny.

We came home and Dexter did his sniffing and peeing in the snow before we went inside. He doesn't like to play in the snow like he did when he was a puppy. If it is super cold outside he will walk in a tippy-toe way and it is funny but I don't think he thinks it is.